Across the creative industry, some of the most important decisions about where people work, and why they stay, are shaped by factors that are rarely articulated publicly.

Not aesthetics.
Not prestige.
Not even the work itself.

But how teams operate.
How decisions are made.
How responsibility and credit are shared.
How pressure is paced.
How people experience their days.

Studios communicate what they make with clarity and confidence. Yet the conditions under which that work is produced, including expectations, authorship, leadership dynamics, and cultural norms, often remain implicit. Designers, in turn, are left to infer what studio life might feel like through reputation, signal, and fragmented insight.

This is not a failure of intent.
It is a failure of clarity.

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Meet Your Team exists to examine how creative teams are built and to bring clarity to the lived experience of studio life.

Through editorial analysis and studio conversations, we document the values, working realities, and cultural conditions shaping creative practice today.

Meet Your Team approaches these questions through an editorial lens, prioritizing observation, context, and lived experience over promotion or prescription.

When culture remains unnamed, misalignment happens quietly.
When expectations are invisible, hiring becomes a matter of risk rather than fit.

By making these dynamics visible, Meet Your Team supports more intentional alignment between studios and designers, leaders and teams, ambition and sustainability.

This is the lens through which everything here is published.

Creative teams, made human.